Signs Of Pelvic Cancer

Pelvic cancer occurs rarely by itself. Usually pain in the pelvis is an indicator of other bone cancers. Pelvic cancer begins slowly as a tumor in the bone and as it grows movement and function of the bone is lost. The pain from the tumor becomes constant and immobility soon sets it. It is even possible for the bone to break under the pressure of a growing tumor.

General Pain

Pelvic cancer includes pelvic pain (pain below the naval, where tumors grow and put pressure on surrounding structures), bladder and bowel incontinence, weight loss, enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, fever, movement problems, stiff bones, bone lumps and masses, bone tenderness, anemia, weight loss, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.

Pain in Bone

As a tumor grows, it exerts pressure upon the pelvic bones. At first the pain is only detected when at night from a painful movement in sleep or as the bone and surrounding muscles are exercised. The tumor can continue to grow causing the pain to be more constant and, in some cases, can actually break bones. The pain accompanying pelvic cancer is quite intricate because it involves organ pain, muscle pain from the growing tumor, pain from the nerves around the muscle and bone compressed by the tumor, and pain from the bone where the cancer is metastasizing.

Chondrosarcoma

Chondrosarcoma is the second most common bone disease and it develops in cartilage. It is common in adults over fifty years old and develops in pelvic, upper leg, and should bone cartilage. While it is not typically defined as pelvic cancer, the tumors can still affect the pelvis and exert great and painful pressure on it and possibly break it.

Ewing's Sarcoma

This bone cancer affects children and young adults. It develops in immature nerve tissue in the middle part of bones. It affects pelvic bones, upper leg, ribs, and arms. Like Chondrosarcoma, it is technically not a pelvic cancer, but it may still affect the pelvis.

Treatment

Radiation treatment, surgical removal of tumors, and clinical trials are all taking place to help make pelvic and bone cancer a disease of the past. For now, typically pelvic cancer that is recurrent will be fatal.

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